ROUND ONE – GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
Q1- How many of his wives did Henry VIII execute? #twubquiz
Q2 – What genus of trees has the Latin name “Picea”? #twubquiz
Q3 – How many strings does a ukulele have? #twubquiz
Q4 – Name the capital of the Isle of Man. #twubquiz
Q5 – What is a Baiji? #twubquiz
Q6 – What is the capital of Ethiopia? #twubquiz
Q7 – Which two nations are the world’s biggest polluters? #twubquiz
Q8 – Which car manufacturer makes the Twingo? #twubquiz
Q9 – Which colour can be BOTH Alizarin and Quinacridone? #twubquiz
Q10 – Which saint survived being shot with arrows, only to be later beaten to death? #twubquiz
ROUND TWO – LITERATURE
Q1 – Who wrote the “Night’s Dawn” Trilogy? #twubquiz
Q2 – How many Brontë siblings were there? #twubquiz
Q3 – Which Steinbeck novel features the characters George and Lennie? #twubquiz
Q4 – Who kills Polonius? #twubquiz
Q5 – Name Heathcliff’s son. #twubquiz
Q6 – Who wrote “Tipping the Velvet”? #twubquiz
Q7 – Where did Kubla Khan build his pleasure dome? #twubquiz
Q8 – Which city is represented by Christminster in the novels of Thomas Hardy? #twubquiz
Q9 – In which of the Narnia stories is one of the children turned into a dragon? #twubquiz
Q10 – Who wrote “Ode to a Nightingale”? #twubquiz
ROUND THREE - PICTURES
Name the composer
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ROUND FOUR – TV & FILM
Q1 – Which professional dancer won Strictly Come Dancing 2008? #twubquiz
Q2 – In which film does Anthony Hopkins play a butler opposite Emma Thompson’s housekeeper? #twubquiz
Q3 – Who played the MC in the film “Cabaret”? #twubquiz
Q4 – What make & model of car does James Bond drive in “Goldfinger”? #twubquiz
Q5 – Name Tom Cruise’s character in “Mission Impossible”. #twubquiz
Q6 – Which film features the song “High Cockalorum”? #twubquiz
Q7 – Which engine was number 3 in “Thomas and Friends”? #twubquiz
Q8 – Which 2009 animated film features the voices of Dawn French & Jennifer Saunders? #twubquiz
Q9 – Which sin’s victim is discovered first in “Se7en”? #twubquiz
Q10 – Name the computer in “2001: A Space Odyssey”. #twubquiz
ROUND FIVE – SCIENCE
Q1 – Which two elements are liquid at room temperature (25 degrees C)? #twubquiz
Q2 – What colour does Magnesium glow when heated? #twubquiz
Q3 – Which geneticist famously used pea plants in his experiments? #twubquiz
Q4 – What is the formula for the volume of a cylinder? #twubquiz
Q5 – How many Carbon atoms are there in a Benzene Ring? #twubquiz
Q6 – What is the formula of Nitrous Oxide (Laughing Gas)? #twubquiz
Q7 – Name the psychologist famous for his experiments with salivating dogs? #twubquiz
Q8 – Which alcohol is produced during anaerobic respiration in yeast? #twubquiz
Q9 – Lack of Vitamin C causes which disease? #twubquiz
Q10 – Metatarsals are found where? #twubquiz
ANSWERS
ROUND ONE
1 – Two
2 – Spruce
3 – Four
4 – Douglas
5 – A Yangtze river dolphin
6 – Addis Ababa
7 – USA & China
8 – Renault
9 – Red
10 – Sebastian
ROUND TWO
1 – Peter F Hamilton
2 – Six
3 – Of Mice & Men
4 – Hamlet
5 – Linton Heathcliff
6 – Sarah Waters
7 – Xanadu
8 – Oxford
9 – The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
10 – Keats
ROUND THREE
1 – Beethoven
2 – Brahms
3 – Bach
4 – Elgar
5 – Mahler
6 – Wagner
7 – Mozart
8 – Handel
9 – Shostakovich
10 – Tavener
ROUND FOUR
1 – Camilla Dallerup
2 – The Remains of the Day
3 – Joel Grey
4 – Aston Martin DB5
5 – Ethan Hunt
6 – The Water Babies
7 – Henry
8 – Coraline
9 – Gluttony
10 – HAL
ROUND FIVE
1 – Mercury & Bromine
2 – White
3 – Gregor Mendel
4 - πr²h
5 – Six
6 – N2O
7 – Ivan Pavlov
8 – Ethanol
9 – Scurvy
10 - Feet
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